24. Jacques-Louis David, Horatius Returning Victorious to...

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Description: Horatius kills his sister Camilla

TitleHoratius kills his sister Camilla

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1781

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack chalk with pen and wash

LocationAlbertina, Vienna

https://sammlungenonline.albertina.at/?query=search=/record/objectnumbersearch=[12676]&showtype=record

Accession number12676

SubjectsDrawing, French--18th centuryArtists' preparatory studiesNeoclassicism (Art)--France

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2. Fatherland

Thomas E. Crow

Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France

~Just ten days after winning the Grand Prix de Rome, Drouais was ready to leave Paris with David and his party. The short delay shows that they had felt little doubt that...

Author

Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.31-45

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00330.3

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23049&redirecttoanchor=85146

Chapter subject tags:David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684. HoraceNeoclassicism (Art)--FranceTheater--France--History--19th centuryPainting, French--18th centuryDebret, Jean Baptiste, 1768-1848

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Funeral of Patroclus

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1779

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen and wash heightened with white over black chalk

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl020016645

Accession numberRF 4004

Funeral of Patroclus

The Oath of the Horatii, study

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack chalk heightened with white on paper

LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France

The Oath of the Horatii, study

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack chalk heightened with white on paper

LocationMusée Bonnat, Bayonne, France

The Oath of the Horatii, study

Horatius Killing his Sister

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1782

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack chalk on paper

LocationPrivate collection

Horatius Killing his Sister

The Death of Socrates, study

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1782

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack chalk and wash on paper

LocationPrivate collection

The Death of Socrates, study

The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, study

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1789

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack chalk, stump and highlights with white chalk on bistre laid paper, squared with black chalk

LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France

https://mba.tours.fr/TPL_CODE/TPL_COLLECTIONPIECE/202-dessins-18e-s..htm?PIECENUM=102&NOMARTISTE=DAVID+Jacques-Louis

Accession number1922-306-3

The Lictors Returning to Brutus the...

The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, study

The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, detail of study

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1787

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen and black ink and gray wash

LocationJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103QX0

Accession number84.GA.8

The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies...

The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, detail of study

Marius, prisoner at Minturnae, study

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDrouais, Jean-Germain

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1786

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen and wash on paper

LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France

Marius, prisoner at Minturnae, study

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDrouais, Jean-Germain

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1786

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen, wash and graphite on paper

LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France

Marius, prisoner at Minturnae, study

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDrouais, Jean-Germain

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1786

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsGraphite squared in ink on paper

LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France

Marius, prisoner at Minturnae, study

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDrouais, Jean-Germain

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1786

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack chalk on paper

LocationEcole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris

Marius, prisoner at Minturnae, study

Drawings after Ghiberti, Annibale Carracci, Poussin, and Michelangelo

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDrouais, Jean-Germain

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsGraphite on paper

LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France

Drawings after Ghiberti, Annibale...

Drawings after Ghiberti, Annibale Carracci, Poussin, and Michelangelo

Caius Gracchus Leaving his House to Calm the Sedition in which He Will Perish

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDrouais, Jean-Germain

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1788

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen and graphite on paper

LocationMusée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France

Caius Gracchus Leaving his House to Calm...

Caius Gracchus Leaving his House to Calm the Sedition in which He Will Perish

The Oath of the Horatii, study

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 17

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1784

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack chalk and ink on paper

LocationEcole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris

The Oath of the Horatii, study

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 17

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1784

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack chalk on paper

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl020032708

Accession numberRF 29914, Recto

The Oath of the Horatii, study

Hippocrates Refusing the Gifts of Artaxerxes, study

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameGirodet de Roucy-Trioson, Anne-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1791–1792

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack chalk on paper

LocationEcole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Hippocrates Refusing the Gifts of...

Hippocrates Refusing the Gifts of Artaxerxes, study

The Death of Timophanes

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameGros, Antoine-Jean

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1793–1800

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen and brown ink, brown, gray and black wash, black chalk, heightened with white, laid paper

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl020212834

Accession numberINV 27024

The Death of Timophanes

The Death of Phaedra

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameGirodet de Roucy-Trioson, Anne-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack pencil

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl020212552

Accession numberINV 26780

The Death of Phaedra

Aeneas Carrying Anchises from the Ruins of Troy

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameGérard, François, Baron;David, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench; French

Creator roleDraftsman

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen with sepia wash on paper

LocationMusées Départementaux de Loire-Atlantique, Nantes, France

Aeneas Carrying Anchises from the Ruins...

Aeneas Carrying Anchises from the Ruins of Troy

Figure of the French Republic

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameWicar, Jean Baptiste Joseph

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1793

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack chalk on paper

LocationMuseo Napoleanico, Rome

Figure of the French Republic

Marius Returning to Rome

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameGérard, François, Baron

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1795

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack chalk and graphite heightened with white on brown paper

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl020212476

Accession numberINV 26715

Marius Returning to Rome

The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, detail of study

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1789

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on paper mounted on canvas

LocationNationalmuseum, Stockholm

http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=19743&viewType=detailView

Accession numberNM 2683

The Lictors Returning to Brutus the...

The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, detail of study

The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, study

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1789

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on paper mounted on canvas

LocationNationalmuseum, Stockholm

http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=19743&viewType=detailView

Accession numberNM 2683

The Lictors Returning to Brutus the...

The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, study

The Death of Socrates

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator name (description)Studio of Jacques-Louis David

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1787

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationPrinceton University, Art Museum, New Jersey

https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/32792

Accession numbery1982-82

The Death of Socrates

The Death of Socrates, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator name (description)Studio of Jacques-Louis David

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1787

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationPrinceton University, Art Museum, New Jersey

https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/32792

Accession numbery1982-82

The Death of Socrates, detail

The Tomb of Drouais

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 25

Creator nameWicar, Jean Baptiste Joseph

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1788

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsGraphite heightened with white chalk on paper

LocationEcole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris

The Tomb of Drouais

Two maidens bring bread to the sleeping Homer

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 04

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1794

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen and ink wash, over pencil

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl020211737

Accession numberINV 26079

Two maidens bring bread to the sleeping...

Two maidens bring bread to the sleeping Homer

Homer saying his poems

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 04

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1794

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPencil, pen, and ink wash

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl020112378

Accession numberRF 789

Homer saying his poems

Mother and Child at the Feet of Tatius, study for The Sabine Women

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 04

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1794–1796

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsGraphite, squared in graphie

LocationSmith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts

https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=SC+1956.46

Accession numberSC 1956.46

Mother and Child at the Feet of Tatius,...

Mother and Child at the Feet of Tatius, study for The Sabine Women

Tennis Court Oath

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 04

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1791–1792

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationChâteau de Versailles

http://collections.chateauversailles.fr/?permid=permobj_ccdc25df-36e8-4705-b2e9-8423154f8772

Accession numberMV 5841

Tennis Court Oath

Tennis Court Oath, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 04

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1791–1792

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPainted sketch

LocationChâteau de Versailles

http://collections.chateauversailles.fr/?permid=permobj_ccdc25df-36e8-4705-b2e9-8423154f8772

Accession numberMV 5841

Tennis Court Oath, detail

A Roman Reclining on a Couch (The Roman Album)

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 04

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1775–1780

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsBlack crayon and gray wash on off-white laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper

LocationHarvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts

https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/293389

Accession number1943.1815.19.15.B

A Roman Reclining on a Couch (The Roman...

A Roman Reclining on a Couch (The Roman Album)

Study for The Oath of the Tennis Court

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 27

Creator nameDavid, Jacques-Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1790

Object typeDrawing

Materialsbrown and black ink and graphite, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper

Dimensions26 1/16 x 39 in. (66.2 x 99 cm)

LocationHarvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachussetts

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/297563

Accession number1943.799

Study for The Oath of the Tennis Court

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